Stephen Kirwan

Stephen Kirwan (aka Kerovan and O'Kirwan) was an Irish Anglican bishop. He was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Clonfert from 1582 until before 4 November 1601.

Life and career

Kirwan was a member of The Tribes of Galway, previously a Roman Catholic educated in Oxford, Paris and Rome. He became an Anglican in the mid-16th century and was the Archdeacon of Annaghdown from 1558 and the first reformed Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmacduagh from 1572. Nominated 30 March 1582 for Clonfert, letters patent were issued 24 May 1582 and he was translated to Clonfert the same year.

Kirwan was involved in local government in Connaught, serving as a justice and commissioner for the province from 1580 until his death.

He died before 4 November 1601. Other members of his family included:

References

Religion and the Laity in Early Modern Galway, Thomas Connors, Galway:History and Society, 1996, pp. 131-148.
"Stephen Kirwan". Retrieved 2013-01-21.

Bishops of Clonfert and of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh

Clonfert	Richard Nangle Roland de Burgo Stephen Kirwan Roland Lynch, Bishop of Kilmacduagh

Clonfert & Kilmacduagh	Robert Dawson William Bailey Edward Wolley William Fitzgerald Theophilus Bolton Arthur Price Edward Synge Mordecai Cary John Whitcombe Arthur Smyth Hon William Carmichael William Gore John Oswald Denison Cumberland Walter Cope John Law Richard Marlay Hon Charles Brodrick Hugh Hamilton Matthew Young George Beresford Nathaniel Alexander Christopher Butson (see merged to Killaloe and Clonfert)

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